Word: phrasings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while compulsory athletics are largely athing of the past, an increasing number of schoolsand conferences, as well as the NCAA, are adoptingstricter admission and participationqualifications for those who do compete. Suddenly,the phrase "student-athlete" is no longer acontradiction in terms...
First, while good intentions might seem like an admirable thing to have, the phrase also conjures up an image of woolly-minded naivete. Those dear old liberals, sitting in their ivory-tower rocking chairs, knitting vast social- welfare blankets from skeins of good intentions and taxpayer money -- What do they know about the real world? The implication is that good intentions are not merely insufficient but even detrimental to the hard business of facing up to the hard truths about poverty and race. Good intentions are for sissies...
...this is happening, of course, because the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. In place of the devil we knew is a threat represented on the briefers' charts by an eerie phrase: THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNCERTAIN. Instead of preparing to fight World War III, the Pentagon is planning to deal with what the charts call MRCS, or major regional conflicts. The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on real and potential enemies around the world, is retiring Russian speakers to make room for specialists in Farsi and Swahili. One of the few categories of procurement that...
...offered by ordinary books: a backlit screen that permits reading in a darkened bedroom without disturbing a spouse, the option of enlarging the type to reduce eyestrain, the ability to copy passages onto a "notebook" page, and a search feature that displays occurrences of any chosen word, name or phrase. This last option could prove handy for, say, recalling the identity of an obscure Dostoyevsky character who suddenly reappears after 100 pages...
...didn't lose jobs because that's what happens in every natural economic downturn. No, we were exporting them to Japan Free trade is fine if you're a fuddy duddy economist trapped in an ivory tower, but for real people in the real world the catch phrase was (and is) "Buy American." Economists might have studies and data, but they don't truly understand our economy an all its subtle nuances; only the untrained, Nintendodulled masses understand that...